It’s been two-and-a-half months since owner Arnold Bromberg announced the imminent closure of all 31 of his family’s retail stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut and his native Rhode Island.

The Route 44 location at 2 New State Highway, which directly abuts Taunton city limits, was the last remaining Benny’s in the Bay State, according to manager Scott Green, who for the past 15 years has run the Raynham Benny’s.

“I’m only the third manager,” he said, since the Raynham store opened in 1962 as Benny’s Auto Store.

Green and Henshaw were among 14 of the Raynham store’s two dozen workers who came together before Green turned the key at 5 p.m. to say goodbye to each other and their former place of employment.

After the doors were secured and the lights switched off they drove the short distance to the Ninety Nine Restaurant to partake of a farewell dinner.

Benny’s was known as a bargain-priced, no-frills retail store chain that stocked and sold a potpourri of toys, housewares, tires, food and just about everything in between.